Alain Jouan

Current

Business development at Media Division - SSL

Past

VP business development at MYSYSTEM Ltd
VP at After Systems Ltd
Sales & Marketing Manager - Image Division at REA GROUP Paris

Managing Director at (Avid) PARALLAX GRAPHICS SYSTEMS Paris
Managing Director France-Swizerland at (Autodesk) ALIAS Paris
EMEA Sales Manager at LOGITEC Boulogne
Sales Executive at Techexport

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Education

ECOLE DE L'AIR/Air Force High school

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Broadcast Media

Websites

Alain Jouan’s Summary

I promote, sale, and organize the business development of the GRAVITY system , this product is a MEDIA ASSET MANAGEMENT sw and hw, able to ingest, edit, sort, produce, monitor, manage Media, format and codec independant.

My market targets are the TV/BROADCAST and the companies in charge of on-line contents ou contents editors.

Sharp understanding of the media market (2D, 3D, Special Effects, IPTV,iTV,VOD,TV:BROADCAST,Video, Internet, Gaming, Telcos, CDN, MAM, Newsrooms, etc...)

I am a Business developer TMT oriented.

Please visit my Professional BLOG : www.alainjouan.blogspot.com

To this day I have dedicated my entire professional life to the development of synthesized 2D and 3D image.

For some years I have enlarged my competent around new online Media.
because today we have access to new prospects as Telcos Operators, Big Accounts who integrate Web TV, and Mobil Markets, who are spreading Contents on the Web.

My first experience in that field goes as far as the first ever available system on the market: the CUBICOMP.
I arrived in my office at Techex, there was a box in a corner that nobody knew what to do with, then my boss said to me in disbelief: "Here this new product: sell it!".

Through the years it seems my recurrent mission has been to either start developing new products on the market or to start the French/European subsidiaries of existing companies based in the UK or the US, with roles such as Salesman, Sales Director and finally now Managing Director - a position I've held for 10 years.

I've had the privilege of promoting software such as Thomson Digital Image, Softimage, or Alias - another product of which I started the sales in France, Europe and the Middle East.

Alain Jouan’s Specialties:

REAL PRO-ACTIVE SALESMAN Results oriented
Fast, efficient, and extremly mobile

Excellent organization, presentation & analytical skills.
Problem-solving attitude, resourceful, innovative and creative outlook.
Excellent negotiations skills at any level (sales, suppliers, staff & team).
Fully computer literate.
Strong prioritizing & multitasking capacities.
Great attention to detail.

Alain Jouan’s Experience

Business development

Media Division - SSL

(Broadcast Media industry)

December 2007 — Present (1 year 8 months)

Gravity is a complete Content Control solution for Broadcasters, offering tools for Content Acquisition, Preparation, Production, Media Management and Monitoring.
Our system uses the latest software and hardware technologies to provide a format and codec agnostic platform. This flexibility allows users to work in any format (HD, SD files or streaming) or multiple formats of their choice at the same time. Our TCP/IP based system uses an industry standard SQL database to store all the content information including user added metadata. Gravity provides broadcasters with the reliability of fully redundant hardware elements and multiple network links to remote sites.

A typical Gravity system consists of a central bureau based core system comprised of multiple Encoders & Decoders, Server & Storage capacity, system Monitoring & Asset Management tools.
VP business development

MYSYSTEM Ltd

(Broadcast Media industry)

January 2003 — July 2007 (4 years 7 months)

Starting up the company from scratch.

Developing appropriate sales tools
Building direct marketing tools including databases
Arrange seminars, Open days, newsletters, including web based events
Identify appropriate trade events to attend

With roles in Sales, Marketing, Finance, Purchasing for a vast range of products and services
dedicated to :

Broadcast/TV, Image, Animation , Games, Industrial Design & Cadcam, Architecture, Web, IPTV /Telcos, Content Delivery Networks,Virtual reality, Metaverse and Multi Media Market.

Products as :
Turn key stations as AVID, 3DS/ALIAS, ADOBE, Sidefx/houdini
Specifics software, hardware, exotics configurations

Services as :
Expertise and Consulting
Special Web site development, eCommerce,
Viral marketing, Commercial Movies,
Training on demand, Specifics Operations,
Specific Hot line and Technical support.
Sourcing,

EMEA REGION, Africa and Middle East Countries
Eastern Countries
VP

After Systems Ltd

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Broadcast Media industry)

July 1996 — January 2003 (6 years 7 months)

Starting up of the company.
Importation and distribution of software for new imaging technologies dedicated to computer graphics production.
Sales & Marketing Manager - Image Division

REA GROUP Paris

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Broadcast Media industry)

January 1994 — January 1996 (2 years 1 month)

Company dedicated to Computer graphics importation and distribution of products and related goods.
Covering : France, Belgium, Mediteranean Countries
Africa and Middle East Countries - Eastern Countries
Managing Director

(Avid) PARALLAX GRAPHICS SYSTEMS Paris

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Broadcast Media industry)

January 1992 — January 1994 (2 years 1 month)

Start up installation
Management of a team of engineers and graphic designers
Sales and Marketing
France, Belgium, Mediteraneans Countries
Africa and Middle East Countries
East Countries
Managing Director France-Swizerland

(Autodesk) ALIAS Paris

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Design industry)

January 1989 — January 1992 (3 years 1 month)

Responsible for the implementation of Alias in France.

Creation and Management of the company and its team - supervising everything from the sales to the technical handling.
EMEA Sales Manager

LOGITEC Boulogne

(Privately Held; Broadcast Media industry)

January 1987 — January 1989 (2 years 1 month)

Graphic Division
(Thomson Digitale Image, Softimage, Targa, etc...)
Sales Executive

Techexport

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Broadcast Media industry)

1987 — 1988 (1 year)

In charge of the creation of the new division of Digital Images

Lauching poducts such as : Cubicomp, Truevision, Optibase, Avid, Vertigo, Wacom.

First sales of 3D/2D workstations.

Alain Jouan’s Education

ECOLE DE L'AIR/Air Force High school

Telecom

• 75% (1st) achieving second prize of year: ‘IT & Telecommunications’. This involved taking part in the “Jupiter” telecommunications project, which involved the linking between French President, French Defence Minister and French Air Force to guarantee nuclear force and enhance military communications.

Activities and Societies:

Raider Scout during 10 years